A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fem
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Nico Bailey, M.F.A. | She/Her | Professional Writer, Amateur Woman | Pushcart Prize Nominee
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Hi, I'm Nico Bailey, a transfem lesbian writer of literary fiction.
My stories center on queer and trans women and explore themes such as disability, queer history, intimacy, metafiction, & mental health.
Follow me for updates on where and when I'm being published and when I post to my blog.
My stories center on queer and trans women and explore themes such as disability, queer history, intimacy, metafiction, & mental health.
Follow me for updates on where and when I'm being published and when I post to my blog.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"My short story 'Excessive and Spurious Emotion' has been published in volume 63 of the literary magazine 'descant' and is available in print. Please have a read and support the other contributors!"
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March 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"My short story 'Excessive and Spurious Emotion' has been published in volume 63 of the literary magazine 'descant' and is available in print. Please have a read and support the other contributors!"
Read: tinyurl.com/dc9nyp23
Read: tinyurl.com/dc9nyp23
"The terms story, narrative, and plot are often used interchangeably when describing, well, a narrative, story, or tale. However, when trying to speak about the mechanics of storytelling and of a specific story, story, narrative, and plot are different concepts entirely."
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February 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The terms story, narrative, and plot are often used interchangeably when describing, well, a narrative, story, or tale. However, when trying to speak about the mechanics of storytelling and of a specific story, story, narrative, and plot are different concepts entirely."
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🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15
December 19, 2024 at 7:36 AM
🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15
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this is a really good breakdown if you want to know the role your Dem senator played in throwing trans kids under the bus with their NDAA vote yesterday:
🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15
December 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
this is a really good breakdown if you want to know the role your Dem senator played in throwing trans kids under the bus with their NDAA vote yesterday:
"Masculinity is denaturalized not through rebels but misfits—characters unable to obtain the masculine ideal despite their best efforts. Pancake’s stories come across as pessimistic, even nihilistic. There seems to be no hope for these characters."
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December 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
"Masculinity is denaturalized not through rebels but misfits—characters unable to obtain the masculine ideal despite their best efforts. Pancake’s stories come across as pessimistic, even nihilistic. There seems to be no hope for these characters."
Read: tinyurl.com/ymydx7k8
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"I think the internet and being 'chronically online' promotes 'Idealism.' I’m not talking about idealism as in 'starry-eyed idealism.' I’m talking about philosophical, capital-I Idealism. Famous Idealists include Plato, Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel."
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December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM
"I think the internet and being 'chronically online' promotes 'Idealism.' I’m not talking about idealism as in 'starry-eyed idealism.' I’m talking about philosophical, capital-I Idealism. Famous Idealists include Plato, Immanuel Kant, and G. W. F. Hegel."
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It’s December, and that means it’s time for end of year wrapups! To celebrate, we’re introducing the TFR Reader’s Choice Awards, where YOU get to choose your favorite transfeminine fiction of 2024!
Voting is open until Dec. 27th. Nominate up to three books per category, link in article below ⬇️
Voting is open until Dec. 27th. Nominate up to three books per category, link in article below ⬇️
Vote for the 2024 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards + 1st Ever December Trans Readathon!
Voting is open now for the inaugural TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 27th.
thetransfemininereview.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:43 PM
It’s December, and that means it’s time for end of year wrapups! To celebrate, we’re introducing the TFR Reader’s Choice Awards, where YOU get to choose your favorite transfeminine fiction of 2024!
Voting is open until Dec. 27th. Nominate up to three books per category, link in article below ⬇️
Voting is open until Dec. 27th. Nominate up to three books per category, link in article below ⬇️
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since the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:19 PM
since the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
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Society is so fucking effective at identifying, grooming and raping young trans girls long before they leave the closet. We are always meant to be fully disempowered sex objects absent of rights, agency, or interiority.
Clueless liberals think that conservatives sexualizing and objectifying trans women is "hypocrisy" because of a basic refusal to understand how patriarchal sexuality and dehumanization go hand in hand.
Viewing a tranny as purely a sex object to be consumed is very much the core of transmisogyny.
Viewing a tranny as purely a sex object to be consumed is very much the core of transmisogyny.
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Society is so fucking effective at identifying, grooming and raping young trans girls long before they leave the closet. We are always meant to be fully disempowered sex objects absent of rights, agency, or interiority.
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The construction of 'trans woman' and 'survivor of sexual assault' as mutually exclusive identities is one of the most evil, pernicious, and downright cruel developments in mainstream political discourse about us.
November 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
The construction of 'trans woman' and 'survivor of sexual assault' as mutually exclusive identities is one of the most evil, pernicious, and downright cruel developments in mainstream political discourse about us.
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If you're white and have a habit of screaming about how white trans women are privileged, you should put your money where your mouth is and donate to Black trans women's fundraisers. I figure if everyone who does this chips in $20 each, those gfms will fill up in no time!
November 26, 2024 at 8:05 PM
If you're white and have a habit of screaming about how white trans women are privileged, you should put your money where your mouth is and donate to Black trans women's fundraisers. I figure if everyone who does this chips in $20 each, those gfms will fill up in no time!
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Support a trans woman writer, please and thank you.
November 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Support a trans woman writer, please and thank you.
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This, and we have to remember how often trans women have been LEGALLY DEFINED as literally "unrapeable."
The function of this is clear: to render us free-use sexual objects with no right to any boundaries.
Transmisogyny is pretty simple when you get down to it.
The function of this is clear: to render us free-use sexual objects with no right to any boundaries.
Transmisogyny is pretty simple when you get down to it.
The construction of 'trans woman' and 'survivor of sexual assault' as mutually exclusive identities is one of the most evil, pernicious, and downright cruel developments in mainstream political discourse about us.
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
This, and we have to remember how often trans women have been LEGALLY DEFINED as literally "unrapeable."
The function of this is clear: to render us free-use sexual objects with no right to any boundaries.
Transmisogyny is pretty simple when you get down to it.
The function of this is clear: to render us free-use sexual objects with no right to any boundaries.
Transmisogyny is pretty simple when you get down to it.
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since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share!
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
A “Gender Critical” and “TERF” Primer
for readers trying to make sense of “feminists versus transgender activists” debates
juliaserano.substack.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share!
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
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Cis allies—something that would help is increased recognition of transmisogyny. 🧵
These efforts often explicitly target TRANS WOMEN, much like shown here, but that distinction is often erased in the responses of allies.
Transmisogyny is a driver of anti-trans hate and fighting it is essential.
These efforts often explicitly target TRANS WOMEN, much like shown here, but that distinction is often erased in the responses of allies.
Transmisogyny is a driver of anti-trans hate and fighting it is essential.
November 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Cis allies—something that would help is increased recognition of transmisogyny. 🧵
These efforts often explicitly target TRANS WOMEN, much like shown here, but that distinction is often erased in the responses of allies.
Transmisogyny is a driver of anti-trans hate and fighting it is essential.
These efforts often explicitly target TRANS WOMEN, much like shown here, but that distinction is often erased in the responses of allies.
Transmisogyny is a driver of anti-trans hate and fighting it is essential.
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One wild aspect of elected office is way Republicans use LGBTQ politicians as a confessional booth.
Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.
But rarely would they actually change their vote.
Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.
But rarely would they actually change their vote.
My GOP colleagues, who privately tell me they don't hate LGBTQ+ people, should find the courage to reject the dehumanizing rhetoric. Your silence is deafening.
November 22, 2024 at 9:56 PM
One wild aspect of elected office is way Republicans use LGBTQ politicians as a confessional booth.
Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.
But rarely would they actually change their vote.
Nearly every day in the Montana House, Republicans would apologize for their votes, tell me they wish the culture war would move on, etc.
But rarely would they actually change their vote.
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Do this for your books too! Only takes a couple seconds per item
Heads up if you've got games on itch. io: You need to go into your dashboard and tag them as non-AI or they'll stop showing up in searches.
(This is generally a good thing- it's going to remove the ML- generated cruft from circulation 🤘)
#TTRPGs
(This is generally a good thing- it's going to remove the ML- generated cruft from circulation 🤘)
#TTRPGs
November 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Do this for your books too! Only takes a couple seconds per item
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Transmisogyny is bad when it affects trans women too by the way. Not just because it also affects cis women.
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Transmisogyny is bad when it affects trans women too by the way. Not just because it also affects cis women.
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I hope it’s remembered that the first trans female member of Congress was almost instantly targeted individually by half of Congress and then abandoned by the other half.
This is life for trans women even in one of the highest offices in the world! This is standard transmisogyny!
This is life for trans women even in one of the highest offices in the world! This is standard transmisogyny!
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
I hope it’s remembered that the first trans female member of Congress was almost instantly targeted individually by half of Congress and then abandoned by the other half.
This is life for trans women even in one of the highest offices in the world! This is standard transmisogyny!
This is life for trans women even in one of the highest offices in the world! This is standard transmisogyny!
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A group of 51 Japanese novelists, including Akutagawa Prize winner Ri Kotomi, released a statement denouncing discriminating against LGBTQ people to coincide with Transgender Day of Remembrance: "Literature cannot be a party to discrimination, oppression, & exclusion."
November 20, 2024 at 6:25 AM
A group of 51 Japanese novelists, including Akutagawa Prize winner Ri Kotomi, released a statement denouncing discriminating against LGBTQ people to coincide with Transgender Day of Remembrance: "Literature cannot be a party to discrimination, oppression, & exclusion."